A Virus By Another Name
A new year, the holidays are over and by now most resolutions that have been made, have been forgotten. Routines are picked up and you’re getting back into the swing of things. Dreams of spring and warmer weather are in the air, despite what that Groundhog predicted. Also in the air? The flu. Just when…
Read MoreTurbo Charging DAM Systems
Digital asset managers spend an unbelievable amount of time and energy on metadata application. The work is tedious and no one that has never taken an entire day to load photos into a digital asset management (DAM) system would ever fully understand just how much. CMS Wire brought this interesting information to us in their article,…
Read MoreFighting Back against Fake News
After months of people pointing fingers and declaring what is and what isn’t “fake news“, Facebook has a starting place for identifying less-than-accurate news articles shared on the social media site. Fortune magazine brought this news to our attention in their article, “Facebook ‘Disputed News’ Tag Goes Live.” Facebook’s new ‘Disputed’ tag will appear beneath…
Read MoreCapturing Emotions with Technology
Lightspeed has announced a strategic partnership with Affectiva to capture emotional coding within its surveys. Benzinga brought this news to us in their article, “Lightspeed Introduces Emotion Analytics.” Emotion Analytics was initially launched in 2016 to offer researchers the ability to quantify emotion from more than 5.5 million Lightspeed panelists in real time through Affectiva’s emotion…
Read MorePatented Ontology Technology for Career Matching
The United States Patent Office has granted RiseSmart a patent for ontology development for profile matching. PR Newswire brought this interesting information to us in their article, “U.S. Patent Office validates RiseSmart’s innovation in outplacement with broad technology patent.” The company’s sophisticated SmartMatch™ engine is powered by RiseSmart. It is what gives the company’s career transition services…
Read MoreAn Elite Group
The term “Copy editors” conjures up images of wire-framed bespectacled people hunched over their desks furiously scratching and swiping with their pencils (always pencils, never pens). Columbia Journalism Review brought this interesting and humorous news to us in their article, “Revenge of the copy editors: Grammar pros find internet stardom.” Copy editors of today will likely…
Read MoreGeeks by Another Name
The term geek has no gender specific connotations. Gender also has zero impact on the ways in which women interact with geek culture. However, geek culture talks to women differently because it believes that we are different. This interesting and somewhat quirky topic came to us from A90SKID in their article, “Semantics and Gender in Geek Culture.” The…
Read MoreDatabases Are Not Basic
Data analytics change on a daily basis. Organizations fight to stay abreast of the technological demands, especially when transitioning from relational databases to graph databases. Smart Data Collective brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Understanding the Evolution from Relationship Databases to Semantic Graph Databases.” The real challenge seems to involve big data…
Read MoreMetadata in Space
NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) provides full and open access to more than 17.5 petabytes of Earth observation data. These data are managed by NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project. This interesting information came to us from Earth Data in their article, “The Common Metadata Repository: The Foundation of NASA’s…
Read MoreMetadata and Law
The role of metadata in the American system of law and justice hasn’t always been clear. Mondaq brought this news to us in their article, “United States: The Argument For Metadata As A Matter Of Procedural Due Process.” Due process has substantive procedural components, and, at its core, is the thread of fundamental fairness that allows…
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